Big Year in Russian Far East. Rogal' Alexander. Birds of Russian Far East

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Podicipediformes

Procellariiformes

Pelecaniformes

Phalacrocoracidae

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Threskiornithidae

Phoenicopteriformes

Phoenicopteridae

Anseriformes

Falconiformes

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Gruiformes

Turniciformes

Charadriiformes

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Pterocletiformes

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Cuculiformes

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Paradoxornithidae

Rogal' Alexander

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total species: 208 total photos: 411 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 1

1. Brown-eared Bulbul (2022-01-02)

2. Common Treecreeper (2022-01-02)

3. Eastern Buzzard (2022-01-05)

4. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-01-05)

5. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2022-01-05)

6. Sky Lark (2022-01-05)

7. Common Kestrel (2022-01-05)

8. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-01-05)

9. Spotted Nutcracker (2022-01-06)

10. Willow Tit (2022-01-06)

11. Rosy-cheeked Bullfinch (2022-02-03)

12. Baikal Bullfinch (2022-02-03)

13. Coal Tit (2022-02-03)

14. Japanese Tit (2022-02-03)

15. Naumann's Thrush (2022-02-03)

16. Eurasian Jay (2022-02-03)

17. Northern Wren (2022-02-07)

18. Asian Rosy-Finch (2022-02-07)

19. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-02-13)

20. Oriental Greenfinch (2022-02-13)

21. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-02-19)

22. Japanese Waxwing (2022-02-24)

23. Eurasian Siskin (2022-02-24)

24. Vinous-throated Parrotbill (2022-02-24)

25. Brambling (2022-02-24)

26. Hawfinch (2022-02-26)

27. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-02-27)

28. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-02-27)

29. Slaty-backed Gull (2022-02-27)

30. Great Crested Grebe (2022-03-07)

31. Northern Pintail (2022-03-07)

32. Chinese Grey Shrike (2022-03-07)

33. Mallard (2022-03-07)

34. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-03-08)

35. Falcated Duck (2022-03-08)

36. Smew (2022-03-08)

37. Red-breasted Merganser (2022-03-08)

38. Glaucous Gull (2022-03-09)

39. Vega Gull (Mongolian) (2022-03-09)

40. Grey Heron (2022-03-09)

41. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2022-03-09)

42. Common Teal (2022-03-09)

43. Goosander (2022-03-11)

44. Baikal Teal (2022-03-11)

45. Northern Goshawk (2022-03-11)

46. Rook (2022-03-12)

47. Northern Lapwing (2022-03-12)

48. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-03-12)

49. Common Pheasant (2022-03-12)

50. Great White Egret (2022-03-14)

51. Great Cormorant (2022-03-14)

52. Black-headed Gull (2022-03-14)

53. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-14)

54. Rock Pigeon (2022-03-14)

55. Gadwall (2022-03-17)

56. Common Pochard (2022-03-17)

57. Tufted Duck (2022-03-17)

58. Red-crowned Crane / Japanese Crane (2022-03-20)

59. Bean Goose (2022-03-20)

60. Hill Pigeon (2022-03-20)

61. Meadow Bunting (2022-03-20)

62. Rustic Bunting (2022-03-20)

63. Long-billed Plover (2022-03-20)

64. Common Goldeneye (2022-03-22)

65. Black-Billed Magpie (2022-03-22)

66. Black-tailed Gull (2022-03-22)

67. Common Starling (2022-03-22)

68. White-cheeked Starling (2022-03-22)

69. Tree Sparrow (2022-03-22)

70. Marsh Tit (2022-03-22)

71. Common Coot (2022-03-22)

72. Hoopoe (2022-03-27)

73. Yellow-throated Bunting (2022-03-27)

74. Daurian Redstart (2022-03-27)

75. Dusky Thrush (2022-03-27)

76. Kentish Plover (2022-03-28)

77. Garganey (2022-03-30)

78. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-30)

79. Black-backed Wagtail (2022-03-30)

80. Carrion Crow (South Asian) (2022-03-30)

81. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-01)

82. Far Eastern Curlew (2022-04-01)

83. Mandarin Duck (2022-04-02)

84. Mew Gull (2022-04-05)

85. White Wagtail (2022-04-05)

86. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-04-05)

87. Vega Gull (2022-04-06)

88. Common Redshank (2022-04-06)

89. Red-flanked Bluetail (2022-04-06)

90. Little Egret (2022-04-06)

91. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-04-13)

92. Pelagic Cormorant (2022-04-13)

93. Pallas's Warbler (2022-04-13)

94. Black-faced Bunting (2022-04-13)

95. Grey-backed Thrush (2022-04-13)

96. Spectacled Guillemot (2022-04-13)

97. Peregrine Falcon (2022-04-13)

98. Japanese Cormorant (2022-04-13)

99. Harlequin Duck (2022-04-13)

100. Dusky Warbler (2022-04-13)

101. Common Moorhen (2022-04-14)

102. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2022-04-14)

103. Grey Wagtail (2022-04-17)

104. Pygmy Woodpecker (2022-04-17)

105. Common Guillemot (2022-05-02)

106. Long-tailed Tit (2022-05-03)

107. Long-tailed Duck (2022-05-04)

108. Steller's Eider (2022-05-04)

109. Red-faced Cormorant (2022-05-05)

110. Red-Necked Grebe (2022-05-05)

111. Black-legged Kittiwake (2022-05-06)

112. Steller's Sea-eagle (2022-05-06)

113. Ancient Murrelet (2022-05-06)

114. Pigeon Guillemot (2022-05-06)

115. Brunnich's Guillemot (2022-05-06)

116. Tufted Puffin (2022-05-06)

117. Common Raven (2022-05-07)

118. Greater Scaup (2022-05-08)

119. Grey-streaked Flycatcher (2022-05-10)

120. Mugimaki Flycatcher (2022-05-10)

121. Eastern Crowned Leaf-warbler (2022-05-10)

122. Asian Brown Flycatcher (2022-05-10)

123. Blue-and-white Flycatcher (2022-05-10)

124. Yellow-browed Warbler (2022-05-10)

125. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2022-05-10)

126. Bluethroat (2022-05-10)

127. Chestnut-eared Bunting (2022-05-10)

128. Siberian Rubythroat (2022-05-10)

129. Pied Harrier (2022-05-10)

130. Chinese Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-10)

131. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-05-10)

132. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (2022-05-10)

133. Barn Swallow (2022-05-11)

134. Lesser Striated Swallow (2022-05-11)

135. Chestnut-cheeked Starling (2022-05-11)

136. Purple-backed Starling (2022-05-11)

137. Eyebrowed Thrush (2022-05-11)

138. Ashy Minivet (2022-05-11)

139. Chinese Grosbeak (2022-05-11)

140. Eurasian Spoonbill (2022-05-12)

141. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-05-12)

142. Grey-tailed Tattler (2022-05-12)

143. Wood Sandpiper (2022-05-12)

144. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (2022-05-12)

145. Long-toed Stint (2022-05-12)

146. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-12)

147. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-05-12)

148. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-12)

149. Common Snipe (2022-05-12)

150. Large-billed Crow (2022-05-13)

151. Blue Rock Thrush (2022-05-15)

152. Chinese Pond-heron (2022-05-15)

153. Stejneger's Stonechat (2022-05-16)

154. Common Oystercatcher (2022-05-16)

155. Lesser Sand Plover (2022-05-16)

156. Black-browed Reed-warbler (2022-05-16)

157. Dunlin (2022-05-16)

158. Eurasian Whimbrel (2022-05-16)

159. Grey Plover (2022-05-16)

160. Common Greenshank (2022-05-18)

161. Tristram's Bunting (2022-05-19)

162. Oriental Reed-warbler (2022-05-21)

163. Little Grebe (2022-05-21)

164. Common Tern (2022-05-21)

165. Forest Wagtail (2022-05-22)

166. Eurasian Penduline-Tit (2022-05-22)

167. Manchurian Bush-Warbler (2022-05-22)

168. Olive-backed Pipit (2022-05-22)

169. Crested Honey-buzzard (2022-05-22)

170. Pacific Swift (2022-05-23)

171. Black-naped Oriole (2022-06-04)

172. Thick-billed Warbler (2022-06-04)

173. White-winged Tern (2022-06-08)

174. Common Cuckoo (2022-06-08)

175. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (2022-06-08)

176. Ural Owl (2022-06-12)

177. Swinhoe's Robin (2022-06-12)

178. Brown-headed Thrush (2022-06-12)

179. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-06-12)

180. Narcissus Flycatcher (2022-06-12)

181. Oriental Cuckoo (2022-06-12)

182. Black-faced Bunting (2022-06-12)

183. Stepanyan's Warbler (2022-06-13)

184. Green-headed Wagtail (2022-06-13)

185. Black Kite (2022-06-13)

186. Latham's Snipe (2022-06-13)

187. White-naped Crane (2022-06-19)

188. Purple Heron (2022-06-19)

189. Black-crowned Night-Heron (2022-06-19)

190. Oriental Stork (2022-06-19)

191. Brown Shrike (2022-06-19)

192. Daurian Jackdaw (2022-06-19)

193. Eastern Marsh-harrier (2022-06-19)

194. Rufous-necked Stint (2022-07-03)

195. Japanese Reed Bunting (2022-07-03)

196. Common Sandpiper (2022-07-13)

197. Common Kingfisher (2022-07-13)

198. Osprey (2022-07-18)

199. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-07-18)

200. Azure Tit (2022-07-24)

201. Eastern White Egret (2022-07-27)

202. Bar-tailed Godwit (2022-07-27)

203. Spotted Redshank (2022-08-07)

204. Black-faced Spoonbill (2022-08-07)

205. Great Knot (2022-08-14)

206. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2022-08-14)

207. Pacific Golden Plover (2022-08-14)

208. Red Knot (2022-08-14)

recent uploads

2022-08-14. Great Knot, Great Knot, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover, Red Knot, Eurasian Spoonbill, Lesser Sand Plover, Terek Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Great Knot, Great Knot.

2022-08-10. Black-naped Oriole, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

2022-08-07. Spotted Redshank, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Black-faced Spoonbill, Siberian Rubythroat.

2022-08-03. Chinese Yellow Wagtail, Grey Plover, Chinese Yellow Wagtail, Chinese Yellow Wagtail, Pied Harrier, Mandarin Duck.

2022-08-01. Common Kingfisher.

2022-07-27. Eastern White Egret, Eurasian Spoonbill, Bar-tailed Godwit, Terek Sandpiper, Rufous-necked Stint, Rufous-necked Stint, Brown Shrike.

2022-07-26. Azure Tit.

2022-07-24. Great White Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Azure Tit, Red-Necked Grebe, Common Tern, Northern Reed Bunting, Great White Egret.

2022-07-18. Red-necked Phalarope, Rufous-necked Stint, Osprey, Dunlin.

2022-07-15. Common Tern.

2022-07-13. Oriental Reed-warbler, Common Sandpiper, Common Moorhen, Common Kingfisher.

2022-07-03. Barn Swallow, Lesser Sand Plover, Rufous-necked Stint, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Japanese Reed Bunting.

2022-06-19. White-naped Crane, Purple Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Great White Egret, Oriental Stork, Eurasian Spoonbill, Purple-backed Starling, Grey Heron, Northern Lapwing, Red-crowned Crane / Japanese Crane, Brown Shrike, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Marsh-harrier, Pied Harrier, Common Tern.

2022-06-14. Ural Owl, Swinhoe's Robin, Brown-headed Thrush, Eurasian Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Narcissus Flycatcher, Oriental Cuckoo, Siberian Rubythroat, Stepanyan's Warbler, Black-faced Bunting, Black-faced Bunting, Spectacled Guillemot, Sky Lark, Green-headed Wagtail, Black Kite, Latham's Snipe.

2022-06-08. White-winged Tern, Common Cuckoo, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Black-browed Reed-warbler, Chinese Spot-billed Duck.

Big Year 2022

1. Alexander Rogal' (208)
2. Arseniy Markiv (181)
3. Nikolay Kharin (175)
4. Anatolii Khodakov (174)
5. Andrey Vyalkov (169)
6. Valery Shokhrin (153)
7. Irina Malykina (151)
8. Anna Golubeva (133)
9. Olga Vasik (131)
10. Dmitry Belyaev (129)

rare birds records

American herring gull (Larus smithsonianus)

© Yuri Artukhin
2015-01-25
Sea of Okhotsk, South-West Kamchatka

The first record of the American (herring) gull in the Russian Federation. Details here: Artukhin, Yu. B. (2022) American herring gull Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 is a new species for the avifauna of Russia. Amurian Zoological Journal, 2022, vol. XIV, No 2, p. 335–344.

Providence Petrel (Pterodroma solandri)

© Ilya Ukolov
2022-07-16

Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)

© Nikolay Kharin
2022-06-26
Putyatin

A vagrant in the region. The 1st photo-record at the website fareastru.

Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)

© Grigorii Smekalov
2022-05-27
Sakhalin, Alexandrovsk

The 1st confirmed record on Sakhalin.

more rarities...

recent video

2022-07-11. Chestnut-eared Bunting (Yuri Suparman).

2021-08-13. Oriental Greenfinch (Yana Pogodina), Grey Bunting (Yana Pogodina).

2021-08-06. Taiga Flycatcher (Yana Pogodina).

2021-08-05. Spotted Nutcracker (Yana Pogodina).

2020-06-14. Great Spotted Woodpecker (Victor Feldsherov).

2020-04-06. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (Yulya Goroshko).

2020-04-04. Mandarin Duck (Pavel Petrushin), Oriental Stork (Pavel Petrushin), Oriental Stork (Pavel Petrushin).

2017-11-26. American Scoter (Ilya Ukolov).

2017-10-07. White-bellied Green-Pigeon (Ilya Ukolov).

2017-10-01. Siberian Grouse (Alexander Yakovlev).

unidentified birds

2022-08-16

Николай Харин: понятно. спасибо...

2022-08-15

Николай Харин: длинноклювый пыжик?

2022-08-10

Валерий Шохрин: Да и на фото видно хорошо

2022-08-08

Николай Харин: спасибо. ну и да. я попытался немного осветлить, а выглядела ну очень темной... и очень крупной... спасибо.

2022-08-08

Николай Харин: спасибо!

more unidentified birds...